A summer night in Boston is like a capricious and mischievous child, when a sudden rainstorm strikes without warning, and the icy rain crashes down on Chris.

He didn't deliberately quicken his pace, as if he was expecting it. Looking up at the sky, he let the rain lap on his face. It's raining, you can use an umbrella, but what if it's raining?

Chris was even a little grateful for the heavy rain at the moment, because it was the one who covered up his helplessness and loss, and kept his lost soul from anyone noticing.

He stopped outside a dessert shop, and saw through the glass window a young couple who looked like a high school couple was sweetly sharing a cream cake, the girl raised the spoon with a happy face, but the boy was a little embarrassed to dodge, and finally couldn't resist the girl's insistence, and reluctantly swallowed the cake in one bite, with a trace of cream left at the corner of his mouth. What a familiar scene, but after too long, he was about to forget it.

When Chris got home, he was soaking wet. He turned on the shower in the house and rinsed himself with his clothes, more like he wanted to wash away the pain from his body than from the cold rain.

His mind drifted back to the picture he saw in the dessert shop, he remembered that Yue'er had been like that, and he had been like that boy, people said that the feeling of happiness was fleeting, but every moment of happiness that he and his beloved girl had was deeply imprinted in his mind and never dissipated.

The warm water from the shower hit him, Chris unbuttoned one button after another, and the steam in the shower room filled the air everywhere, like a dream, bringing his mind back to his happy childhood.

Chris and Yue'er met at Milton Academy. Compared with Yue'er, the second generation of immigrants, the Chris family has a long relationship with this school that has a history of more than 200 years and is almost the same age as the United States.

Their family has been the school's lifer for generations. In the school's alumni who's who make it to the list, many members of the Chris family are on the list. His great-grandfather used to be a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, and when he arrived at his grandfather's generation, he was nominated by the party to run in a presidential election because of his outstanding performance as a state in Massachusetts, although he received more votes than his opponent, but lost because of the Electoral College system in the United States. Chris's father was also a well-known diplomat, and he had a diplomatic ambition to save Africa's Third World countries from their misery and lead them on the path to freedom.

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Prestigious private schools in the United States are generally direct to the school, generally from K (kindergarten is the school year at the age of 5) to the 12th grade (that is, high school graduation), of course, there are schools with an earlier preK (that is, 3 years old as the starting point).

And these well-known private schools have a name for the graduates who have been studying in the school from childhood to adulthood, that is, lifer (people who have studied in this school from the beginning). And what many people don't know is that this title of lifer is no less important to many people than attending a prestigious university. If you look at LinkedIn, you will find that some people don't just write about their higher education background, people selectively write their pre-higher education schools in their resumes. And this choice, naturally refers to the school itself is very famous, if you are studying in a well-known private school in the United States, and you are a lifer, the weight of this self-introduction can be imagined, it can be described as an elite halo. This kind of brand name will follow a person, which is a very proud experience.

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These ancestors and his father were role models for Chris, and he was always proud of them, and he was even more willing to follow in his father's footsteps and enter politics. His only brother, who was nine years older than him, was not interested in the family's business, chose business during college, and got into finance with a group of like-minded friends, and the company was listed on the NASDAQ within a few years of its establishment.

When Chris stepped through the doors of Milton College on his first day, he was different from the rest of his classmates in that he had come with a mission. This mission is to continue the glory of their family and shine in American politics in the future.

In fact, many private schools will re-divide the students in the grade every school year, but Chris and Yue'er are like a magnet tied to their bodies, they have never been separated, they are always firmly tied together, and they are classmates from elementary school to high school graduation.

Chris is radiant and shining, the prince charming in the minds of the school girls, not only because of his amazing family background, but also because he deliberately maintains a polite and distant distance from everyone, which casts a layer of mystery on him.

When exactly she was attracted to Chris, she never told him personally. He only remembered that one day at the beginning of the seventh grade, he walked to the training gym as usual and saw a familiar figure. Karate is a martial arts skill, and few girls are interested, so he was very surprised by the appearance of Yue'er.

And she didn't say anything to him except to nod politely. Subsequently, he would see her every time he practiced, focused and persistent. And his interest in her is also increasing day by day, frankly speaking, there have been girls from this school who came to the gym to sign up because they admired him and followed him, but it was usually three minutes of heat, and it disappeared without a trace after a few days of practice. Yue'er's eyes are also flickering when she looks at him on weekdays, so Chris is also a little confident, and her appearance is more or less for him.

So he kept watching her, and at the same time guessing when the girl would give up, after all, karate is very boring. This kind of fighting technique is not as handsome as the layman imagines every day, in fact, most of the time the gym's practice is to practice standing (pile), basic movements, a bunch of types and restraint kumite (simulated fighting), which is quite boring! Some masters can even practice only one mother boxer for a year or two in the later stage, not to mention this kind of suffering.

But to his great surprise, Yue'er's training was really extremely dedicated, and she quickly upgraded after completing one course after another. You know, there are many schools of karate (Shotokan-ryu, Wado-ryu, Gang-rou-ryu, Ito-ryu, etc.), and their dokan teaches Jizhen-ryu karate, which is the toughest practical school of all schools of karate, and is famous for its iconic full-contact kumite (sparring) rules, according to the rules, the hand does not hit the head, but the leg can kick the head, which allows practitioners to quickly master offensive and defensive skills while ensuring a certain amount of safety. Jizhen has both the genes of rigidity and softness and Songtaoguan in terms of inheritance, but it has its own characteristics.

Because of this, there are very few female players, and Yue'er's training opponents on weekdays are a group of boys, at the beginning, everyone wanted to be merciful to her subordinates, pity the fragrance and cherish the jade, but in the past few months, they were convinced by her ruthlessness, she is really hard! Just like that, in less than a year, she rose all the way to the blue ribbon, not to mention those peers, even the senior brothers and masters treated her differently, it is rare for such a hard-working girl to endure hardships.